Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

I should have been conceived during Woodstock

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.

The less we know the more we suspect

Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once.

I have never seen where hatred overcomes love. When you love, you overcome. Love is the most powerful weapon.